JSTEWARD1941-002 - primary ethnography
Ash Meadows Southern Paiute (SP-Ash)
United States - Ash Meadows, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada - North America - Great Basin
Function not recorded
Source term: Bull-roarer
East of Death Valley, in the spring-fed meadows of the Amargosa, the bullroarer was a flat wooden slat swung on a thong from a short handle. Nothing further was set down of it here — not its name, not its occasion. Throughout this southern half of the Great Basin, wherever the question was put, the answer was that it was a plaything.
- Object
- Not described; the Great Basin form is a flat wooden slat swung on a cord from a short handle stick.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium_high - Ash Meadows, in the Amargosa Valley of Nye County, Nevada - the named survey locality and the couple's residence.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 307, element 1870 (column SM); informants pp. 213-214